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Diamondhead |
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February 05, 2010 11:59:33am |
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GratefulDead
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Re: What was your musical journey to the Dead ... and afterlife ? |
Geez, am I old. I started out listening to rock and roll on AM radio - big thing when I was growing up was the transistor radio! Ended up liking Broadway shows and then gravitated towards jazz. Saw Miles Davis and Herbie Hancock at UCLA is '67 amongst other greats. I was a jazz snob, I guess. One day while crusing, I happened on a new FM station - KPPC playing free-form music - and I heard the Cream doing Outside Woman Blues and it was all over for me and downhill from there. Shortly afterwards, my little next door neighbor asked me to take her to a concert cause her boyfriend was out of town. So, my first show was Jimi Henrix at the UCLA Grand Ballroom. And so it went. In '71, friends on the next block talked me into going to see the GD at the Pasadena Civic and it was all she wrote. I still can't go two days without listening to the Dead. Although now I also listen to Hawaiian, electronica, and hip-hop (thanks to my darling son). A long strange trip it's been.
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